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population shift from rural areas to
the capital, the positive and nega-
tive aspects of merging municipali-
ties and transportation and commu-
nications.
P. 51 - FLAWS IN THE PLAN-
NING OF THE CAPITAL
Here Skúli H. Norðdahl, former
director of planning for the munici-
pality of Kópavogur, gives his view
of some of the major flaws in the
former regional plan for the capital
area, which was ratified in 1968.
P. 53 - THE CAPITAL’S
REGIONAL PLAN
Stefán Thors, director of planning
for the Icelandic government, here
discusses the current regional plan
for the capital and stresses the im-
portance of it being implemented
effectively.
P. 58 - ADDITION ONTO THE
MURCIA CITY HALL
This article by art historian Dr.
Halldóra Arnardóttir discusses in
some detail a recent addition built
onto the city hall in Murcia, Spain.
The architect was Rafael Moneos.
P. 63 - DEVELOPMENTAL
PLAN FOR REYKJAVÍK CITY
CENTER
In 1997 the city of Reykjavík and
the Central Reykjavík Association
formed a partnership to create a
developmental plan for the city of
Reykjavík. In this article, project
manager Anna Margrét Guðjóns-
dóttir defines just what this entails,
discusses why such a plan is needed
and also describes its first phase.
P. 68 - THE ICELANDIC
DESIGN MUSEUM
On October 15 the first exhibition
was opened in the newly-founded
Icelandic Design Museum, in
Garðabær. On that occasion the
museum hosted a symposium on
the role of design museums in the
present and future. This article
traces the process leading to the
opening of the museum and dis-
cusses new opportunities for
Icelandic design and the status at
the dawn of a new millennium.
P. 72 - COMMON DATABASE
FOR REYKJAVÍK ORGANIZA-
TIONS
In this article engineer Heiðar Þ.
Hallgrímsson describes a common
database which now exists on the
Internet for several municipal orga-
nizations. These are The Reykjavík
Municipal Power Company, The
Reykjavík Municipal Water Works,
The Reykjavík City Planning
Office and The National Telephone
Company. The article discusses,
among other things, how to go
about obtaining documents from
the database, which can be accessed
at www.rvk.is/lukr
P. 77 - NEW B.M. VALLÁ
BUILDING
This article focuses on a new build-
ing for the offices of the company
B.M. Vallá, in Reykjavík. The
building was designed by Omar
Sighurbergsson and the architectur-
al design firm ÚTI og INNI. Details
of the design work, the surround-
ings, ideology and so on are given,
supplemented by photographs.
P. 82 - INFORMATION CEN-
TRE AT ÞINGVELLIR
Last July the government of Iceland
held a competition for the design of
a new information centre at the
Þingvellir national park. First prize
was awarded to the architecture
design firm Gláma/Kím. The article
discusses the particulars of the
award-winning proposal.
P. 87 - SOIL RECLAMATION
Here Jóna Fanney Friðriksdóttir
writes about the work of the soil
reclamation association Gróður
fyrir fólk í landnámi Ingólfs, of
which she is director. She points out
the crucial importance of soil recla-
mation for Iceland and also discuss-
es the environmental project SKIL
21, which aims at recycling bio-
degradable waste.
P. 91 - KRINGLAN - THE NEW
ADDITION
This article gives details of the
design and construction of the new
addition to the Kringlan shopping
mall, in Reykjavík. Architectural
work was conducted by the firm
Teiknistofa Halldórs Guðmunds-
sonar. ■
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